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We are excited to announce our new senior associate, Orcan Çetinkaya. 

We are pleased to announce that Bihter Bozbay İnan is named among “MENA Super 50 Lawyers” by Asian Legal Business, a Thomson Reuters company.  

It was our pleasure to host Dr. Cem Veziroğlu, Assistant Professor at Koç University School of Law, in our office on 16 September 2024. We thank him for providing our lawyers with a valuable training session on “ESG Regulations: Obligations, Risks and Opportunities for Companies”.

We are very pleased to announce our new senior associates, Ece Çağıran and Ceyda Betül Gülmezoğlu.
Aktuelle Bulletins und Publikationen
Turkish Competition Authority's Increased Scrutiny Towards No-Poaching Agreements
Significant Changes to the Turkish Commercial Code and the Law on the Protection of Competition
Aktuelle Bulletins und Publikationen
Recent Amendments on Investment Funds
Amendments to the Personal Data Protection Law
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Aktuelle Podcasts
Session VII: Payment Services Sector Analysis
Gülce Gürdal and her guests, Zeynep Dağlı Kastro, the founder of Momento, and Giray Göde, the General Manager and Board Member of TT Ödeme, discuss payment and electronic money institutions’ role in the sector, the digital banking’s future, and the users’ perspective on payment services.
Session VI: Arbitration: Why, When and How? – Part 2
In the second session of our podcast series focusing on the "why, when and how” questions on arbitration, our senior associate Cihan Mercan reunites with Prof. Dr. Zeynep Derya Tarman, professor at Koç University School of Law, Yasin Ekmen, Secretary General at the Istanbul Arbitration Center (ISTAC), and Demet Kaşarcıoğlu, partner at Esin Attorney Partnership. During the session, Cihan Mercan and our guests elaborate on which circumstances one must prefer “institutional arbitration and ad hoc arbitration” in light of their experience. The discussion continues with an evaluation about the development of arbitration in Turkey and ISTAC's undeniable contribution to this development.
Session V: Arbitration: Why, When and How? – Part 1
Our senior associate Cihan Mercan and his guests, Prof. Dr. Zeynep Derya Tarman, professor at Koç University School of Law, Yasin Ekmen, Secretary General at the Istanbul Arbitration Center (ISTAC), and Demet Kaşarcıoğlu, partner at Esin Attorney Partnership, discuss the "why, when and how" questions on arbitration.

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